Pen Translation On Other Language:

de pæne «presque»?? PIE *pot-/pet-/pt- "fly, flow." the vowelless variant with the suffix -r turns up in pteron "wing," found in pterodactyl "wing-finger." The same vowelless variant is found in Russian pt-ica "bird." English inherited the e-variant with the same r-suffix as Greek, *pet-r-. When [p] became [f] and [t] became [th], we got "feather." Sanskrit pattram "feather, leaf" shares the same source, as does Latin penna "feather, wing" from earlier *pet-na.1 fra. plumage ; eng. featherpar( e paranda) (plv.)